Foreign Perspectives

I find that normal long haul flights aren’t too bad in that you get on the plane one day and arrive later the same day if you’re going west or perhaps early the next day if you’re going east.

However, if you’re doing the London to Sydney trip in one hit you get on the plane one day and get off it two days later which is more than a little disorienting I think. OK, there’s a break for refueling in that two days but it’s usually at a peculiar time so it may as well be one continuous flight.

Also very weird is the flight from Buenos Aires to Sydney. That crosses the date line so you lose a day along the way. Or, rather, you don’t because what actually happens is that you leave Buenos Aires in the evening, in the middle of the flight the sun comes up and then goes down again a few hours later and finally you arrive in the evening so your “missing day” is actually a few hours long.